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Beware: Bank Credit Cards

Don't mix cash and credit

This policy is creating situations where bank customers are unable to make purchases or do online banking even when they have substantial balances in their cash accounts. In some cases, they can’t even make payments between accounts within their own bank, unless they go to a bank branch to handle the transactions.

If you are in that type of situation with your bank, I strongly suggest that you either move your cash accounts to another bank as soon as you can – or payoff and close all credit cards and other loans with your bank.

Bush finally admits that the economy is not too good

Back on January 18th, I commented on this blog that President George W. Bush and the folks at the Federal Reserve had sewn the seeds of recession and that it was already upon us. Since then the Fed has dropped their rates three times (and will probably do it again next week) in a panic [...]